@Mark39
indeed you are likely correct but as with other providers legacy service of maintaining user name function seems to be a committment that cannot be wriggled out of.
However, corporate think tank of the youngsters likely means that by making life awkward people will drift away and so the service can be closed or sold off. This seems to be the case with SKY Q vs streaming via SKY glass. It is cheaper to let the satellites tumble and not be replaced and use landline fibreoptic cabling. Which is fine as no new astellites are required or use of A N Other's satellite. However streaming is not so frisky. To load Disney+ (not my cup of tea anyhow) I timed at 37 seconds to load. Whereas non-streaming is almost instant. A SKY engineer who had to replace a dead SKY Q box stated that they, and other SKY engineers do not like Glass and streaming due to delays and inability to set record and then instantly watch. They will themselves use SKY Q. Streaming means SKY reduce risk of via-satellite, but the user is fixed to streaming, that is not so instant given the slowness of search etc and each platform functions differently - to be learned. No doubt SKY satellite (SKY then being an oxymoron as no actual use of the sky) will switch off and coercion of must-use-streaming will dominate. And therein is the niggle - a) lack of choice and tithe'd to total internet control and hence data control. Skynet to be. (Terminator fans). I'm not being NIMBY about this I do understand progress, I just don't relish it for teh sake of it, just because some newbie code-merchant thinks that they know the world. The sadness of think of those internet fed is that it is never new. Information is in a cycle. I wrote a doctorate thesis pre-internet. That was a manual trawl of published bibliography and researck indexes. I found that the information was in 30 year cycles. Why? Because do not think it has ever been done before - just because they can't find it. Which is because they do not know how. These days it it ain't om Google - it doessn't exist. Which is not the case. As I didge the coffin I notice ever more information ins my old field of work displayed as new - which it isn't. It is just a Google trawl, believing everything is on teh internet - it isn't. Further thses days the internet csna no longer be a trustworthy source of information due to corruption & AI & contructed fake information & scams etc. I witness daily closure of banks off the high street forcing people to go online. Fine - but if you don't have the internet nor can use a mobile phone easily such as elderly friends have - what then - ageist exclusion by a younger society? Sorry to rant on, but the issue to me is simple. Users are subscribers. Subscribers pay money. That money pays corporate salaries. So like it or not there is an indirect contract between SKY corporation and SKY users both moral and physical. /rant 😁
Sorry to take up your head space, but this 2 factor business is creep coercion that is now endemic bu simply accepted as norm. 1984 anyone?
cheers
